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J. PERSCH.

LADYS KNITTBD DRAWERS.

Patented Sept. 46, 1887.

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LADYS KNITTED DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION lforming part of Letters Patent No. 369,549, datedSeptember 6, 1887.

I Application filed June 22, 1887. Serial No. 242,120. (Model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN Pansen, of N ew York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inLadies7 Drawers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is animproved ladies drawers.

The invention consists in the construction as hereinafter explained. Itis illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the tigure is afront elevation of my invention.

The garment is a knitted fabric and is ribbed, as represented. The twoparts consist of a front and rear piece united by side seams, aa. Thefabric is knitted from the top continuously down to the line where theflap or overlapping portion commenees, (represented by the line b b2.)On this line the needles are thrown out 'of action from the point Z1 tothe point c, and the fabric is knitted with suitable narrowing to theend of the leg. Then the needles from the point b to the point c arebrought into action again, and new stitches are taken up from the pointc to the point d, and the knitting is continued from this point withsuitable narrowing to the end of the other leg.

This forms an overlap, O, and an underlap, D,

one of said laps being continuous throughout and the other lap having aselvage from the point c to the point d. This selvage is sewed to thecontinuous portion on theline b Zr', and thus alap is formed for thegarment. The

front part, A, thus described is the saine as the rear part, with theexception of a difference in the overlap. To complete the garment, thefront and rear parts are joined on the outside seams, a a, as beforeexplained, and on the inside seams, f f, the latter extending up to thedesired height, but leaving an opening on the inside of each leg.Suitable side openings are left in the upper part., and the garment isprovided with a waistband, G. By this construction the complete garmentmay be knitted of ribbed fabric with ample lateral elasticity, and onlythe two short horizontal seams where the laps are united to thecontinuous fabric, besides the ordinary leg-seams- Thus it will be seenthat the drawers are seribing witnesses.

JOHN PERSCH. Vitnesses:

ANDREW J. SHIVELY, GEO. S. CARUTH.

